Job 31:27

and my heart has been secretly enticed, and my mouth has kissed my hand

A Conservative Version

In The King James Version

And my heart hath been secretly enticed, or my mouth hath kissed my hand:

In Context

26if I have beheld the sun when it shone, or the moon walking in brightness,

28(this also is an iniquity to be punished by the judges, for I would have denied the God that is above);

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Cross References

Deuteronomy 11:16Take heed to yourselves, lest your heart be deceived, and ye turn aside, and serve other gods, and worship them,

1 Kings 19:18Yet I have reserved [for me] seven thousand in Israel, all the knees which have not bowed to Baal, and every mouth which has not kissed him.

Isaiah 44:20He feeds on ashes. A deceived heart has turned him aside. And he cannot deliver his soul, nor say, Is there not a lie in my right hand?

Hosea 13:2And now they sin more and more, and have made themselves molten images of their silver, even idols according to their own understanding, all of them the work of the craftsmen. They say of them, Let the men who sacrifice kiss the ca

Romans 1:28And just as they did not approve having God in knowledge, God gave them over to an unfit mind, to do things that are not fit;

Matthew Henry on Job 31:25-33

Job's Abhorrence of Idolatry. ( b. c. 1520.) 24 If I have made gold my hope, or have said to the fine gold, Thou art my confidence; 25 If I rejoiced because my wealth was great, and because mine hand had gotten much; 26 If I beheld the sun when it shined, or the moon walking in brightness; 27 And my heart hath been secretly enticed, or my mouth hath kissed my hand: 28 This also were an iniquity to be punished by the judge: for I should have denied the God that is above. 29 If I rejoiced at the destruction of him… Read the whole commentary →

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